Back Market’s front-end tech takedown
With this clipart-crazy, fast-paced, vibrant ad, Fallon supports a disruptor in the tech marketplace by being as obnoxious and in your face as possible.
An artful ode to breakup pain
In Lisette Donkersloot's striking promo for Novo Amor's I Feel Better, the betrayal, heartache, solitude and rebirth splitting up brings on is dramatically captured.
Alexa, break the fourth wall
In a pair of comedic spots from Droga5 for Amazon's omnipresent assistant, high drama is cut-off by audience members' specific demands.
2020 vision
The future looks blurred for those ignoring The College of Optometrists’ insightful campaign.
Unstoppable heroes
Surrey Hospitals Foundation launches a fundraising campaign featuring heart-warming tales of indomitable spirit.
Greenpeace tackles a monster problem
In 2018 Greenpeace UK’s Rang Tan, shot to fame when it was banned from UK TV screens after being deemed too political by the advertising approval agency. Now Greenpeace is back with another hard-hitting film about the consequences of deforestation.
Awesome aural alterations
BBC Sounds launches a trippy trailer celebrating the musical metamorphosis listeners can enjoy.
American horror story
Matthew Branning’s chilling film warns of the dangers of not voting in the upcoming US election.
Back Market’s front-end tech takedown
With this clipart-crazy, fast-paced, vibrant ad, Fallon supports a disruptor in the tech marketplace by being as obnoxious and in your face as possible.
An artful ode to breakup pain
In Lisette Donkersloot's striking promo for Novo Amor's I Feel Better, the betrayal, heartache, solitude and rebirth splitting up brings on is dramatically captured.
Alexa, break the fourth wall
In a pair of comedic spots from Droga5 for Amazon's omnipresent assistant, high drama is cut-off by audience members' specific demands.
2020 vision
The future looks blurred for those ignoring The College of Optometrists’ insightful campaign.
Unstoppable heroes
Surrey Hospitals Foundation launches a fundraising campaign featuring heart-warming tales of indomitable spirit.
Greenpeace tackles a monster problem
In 2018 Greenpeace UK’s Rang Tan, shot to fame when it was banned from UK TV screens after being deemed too political by the advertising approval agency. Now Greenpeace is back with another hard-hitting film about the consequences of deforestation.
Awesome aural alterations
BBC Sounds launches a trippy trailer celebrating the musical metamorphosis listeners can enjoy.
American horror story
Matthew Branning’s chilling film warns of the dangers of not voting in the upcoming US election.
Q&As and behind-the-scenes info on the latest and greatest commercials, shorts and music videos.
Greenpeacetacklesamonsterproblem
In 2018 Greenpeace UK’s Rang Tan, shot to fame when it was banned from UK TV screens after being deemed too political by the advertising approval agency. Now Greenpeace is back with another hard-hitting film about the consequences of deforestation.
How an animatic can be authored anarchy
Keith Schofield's jaw-dropping, idea-packed, digital-puppeteering music video for Duck Sauce's Mesmerize was released at the weekend onto an unsuspecting audience. We caught up with him to talk appropriating celeb's heads, questioning the existence of reality and journeying through an army of anuses.
The kids are alright in revealing short doc
Charlotte Regan takes us behind the scenes of her sweet, insightful short doc, No Ball Games, which gives us a glimpse into the lives of children living in underprivileged areas of the UK and how they spend their leisure time.
How to give animation a Heartbeat
Filled with a painterly technique created using Procreate on iPad and After Effects wizardry, Kyra Bartley's moving Heartbeats for Save our Sons had a style that was as mesmerising as the spot was devastating. We spoke to her about how she swirled her digital paintbrush through our emotions.
How to play with The King
Enlisting the talents of legend himself (that's MR Eric Cantona to you), Coyle-Larner Brothers' heartfelt spot for FIFA 21 speaks to the winners in all of us. We chat to the directing siblings to find out how it was all put together.
Serial Pictures welcomes filmmaker Bradford Young
Young joins for director representation for branded entertainment, commercials and music videos.
HAMLET sign award winning comedy director Sebastien Petretti
Petretti signs to their roster for European and Asian representation.
Nomad sign editor Jamie O’Donnell
Starting his career working in hotel management before making the switch to a career as a commercials editor, it's been an interesting path for O’Donnell.
Caviar sign British filmmaker & screenwriter Lainey Richardson
Caviar are super excited to announce the signing of British filmmaker & screenwriter Lainey Richardson for commercial & music video representation in the UK & Holland.
Director Michael Gracey joins FINCH
Film production company FINCH are thrilled to announce that Australian filmmaker Michael Gracey has joined their roster of directors for commercial representation.
Nexus Studios signs boundary defying Japanese Director Fantasista Utamaro
Born in Japan but based in Brooklyn, Uta is part of a new generation of young Japanese creatives challenging the traditional boundaries of art.
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- Make Your Morning Moment with the relaunch of NESCAFÉ Original
- Glenfiddich asks Where Next? in striking new global campaign
- MTN DEW disrupts marketing conventions with latest creative
- Presidential face off in satirical new campaign
- Johan Stahl Makes a Blockbuster Statement for Justice
- Burger King Switzerland makes short work of preservatives
Serial Pictures welcomes filmmaker Bradford Young
Young joins for director representation for branded entertainment, commercials and music videos.
HAMLET sign award winning comedy director Sebastien Petretti
Petretti signs to their roster for European and Asian representation.
Nomad sign editor Jamie O’Donnell
Starting his career working in hotel management before making the switch to a career as a commercials editor, it's been an interesting path for O’Donnell.
Caviar sign British filmmaker & screenwriter Lainey Richardson
Caviar are super excited to announce the signing of British filmmaker & screenwriter Lainey Richardson for commercial & music video representation in the UK & Holland.
Director Michael Gracey joins FINCH
Film production company FINCH are thrilled to announce that Australian filmmaker Michael Gracey has joined their roster of directors for commercial representation.
Nexus Studios signs boundary defying Japanese Director Fantasista Utamaro
Born in Japan but based in Brooklyn, Uta is part of a new generation of young Japanese creatives challenging the traditional boundaries of art.
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Meena Ayittey: Showing it like it is
The daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, Meena Ayittey eschewed her parents’ conventional career aspirations to forge a successful career in the creative industries. Recently signed to Great Guns, she finds rich filmic inspiration in the concept of racism, from her heartrending tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement to a new documentary lifting the lid on creatives of colour and the challenges of adland.
Creative Correspondence: Andreas Nilsson and Ben Campbell
From whale poop, to rockhopper penguins; from the importance of planning to the influence of artists, The Quarry's Ben Campbell and Biscuit's Andreas Nilsson have the email correspondence you didn't know you needed to read.
Em Weinstein’s queer homecoming
We talk to emerging director Em Weinstein about their recent win at Outfest, how to disrupt the gender binaries in film, how to make festivals more approachable, and what it will take to make storytelling more inclusive.
Playlist: Kaitlyn Battistelli
We chat with Ethos Studios colorist Kaitlyn Battistelli about VH1 video facts, grading for Grimes and learning how to knit!
Art of Advertising: Tony Yacenda
Merging tongue-in-cheek satirical instincts and an obsession with internet humor, Tony Yacenda, of SMUGGLER, shares his inspirations and the artistic wells he draws from.
On My Radar: Munzie Thind
GCRS' Sound Designer Munzie Thind cites a perfick comedy and a recent rave retrospective as two of his inspirations and, for our diversity focus, he reveals his experiences of working in the advertising industry in the early 90s.
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With gender equality being a primary concern in live-action production, Final Frontier EP Julieta Zajaczkowski asks if enough is being done in the commercial animation sector.
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